This article is for educational purposes only, ripping off a poorly created system is still theft. That being said we can learn lots about how not to create a card payment system. Koala from Because life is a hack was curious what made his laundry card payment system work, after cracking open the case he was surprised to see an EEPROM inside. Using a Bus Pirate and a Openbench Logic
Here is a cool battle between a Paintball toting Tank and the Paintball Sentry. Looks like the tank needs a bit more speed and punch to be able to be a contender. Thanks for the email Jeff. “I mounted a turret kit from our website to a Traxxas slash and pit it up against the paintball sentry”
After watching the Water Touch Screen video I was expecting to read that there was tons of sensors monitoring disturbances in the water, or changes in pressure due to the introduction of the users fingers. Was I ever wrong, turns out that a Web Cam and some carefully crafted software is all the magic that was needed here! Via: Neatorama “The webcam takes a picture of the surface of the
With Pepper Mouth, the user will get sprayed in the mouth whenever they type a swear word on their computer keyboard. This is sure to be a hit with parents trying to keep their kids online use clean. Only issue is that the user can just unplug the USB device and toss it in the drawer. Via: Neatorama “Maybe when your “bad language” disturbs you with a bad smell, you
Adam Greig from Negative Acknowledge has developed a nice Nerf Sentry Gun, he used the NERF Vulcan which was the same gun I was thinking of using for my Nerf Gun project which is currently being finished but it was quite a bit more than the knock off that I ended up using. Via: Hack a Day “The gun itself is now running off a 3-cell lipo pack, which about
If you run a server room or have tons of computer equipment in your house you might want to keep track of the room environment. Invent Geek has made a Open Source Server Room Monitor project to help us do this on the cheap. “The server room environmental monitoring system is a low cost high performance device with the same onboard features as commercial devices costing hundreds of dollars more.
If you like video games and DIY electronics have a look at this cool version of Tetris that Adam Papamarcos and Kerran Flanagan made. It’s called Human Tetris since you need to use your body to simulate the puzzle shapes to play the game. This is another great project from the Cornell ECE 4760 Course. Unlike most of the 4760 projects this team went to the extra trouble of having
